Curated category
18th-century French male writers
- VoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet was born in Paris on the 21st of November 1694. He entered the world as the youngest child of a minor treasury official and a woman…
- Denis DiderotDenis Diderot was born on the 5th of October 1713 in the city of Langres. His father Didier worked as a cutler and his mother Angélique Vigneron supported…
- MontesquieuCharles Louis de Secondat entered the world on the 18th of January 1689 at the Château de la Brède. This estate sat south of Bordeaux in southwest France.
- Maximilien RobespierreMaximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was baptised on the 6th of May 1758 in the city of Arras, located in Artois.
- Antoine LavoisierAntoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was born on the 26th of August 1743 to a wealthy family of nobility in Paris. He inherited a large fortune at the age of five…